On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 08:12:17PM +0100, David Santinoli wrote:
Hallo,
I could not find a way to pipe a message to an external filter and have
the output replace the original message. As a workaround I open the
message in vim, pipe the whole buffer to the filter, and save it back as
a new message while the original one gets marked for deletion.
It works but it's a bit cumbersome. Anything more straightforward —
possibly from the index screen?
I'm using mutt 2.1.4 as included in Ubuntu 22.04.
Still doing the same thing, but perhaps reducing keystrokes to 2 total.
In your ~/.vimrc file, map a key sequence of your choice to do the work.
For example:
map <f3> !Gpr -t -d^M:wq^M
Here I'm mapping my function key F3. I sometimes use ",," or ",x" as
my mapped sequence.
Editing your message from the index positions the cursor on the first
blank line after the headers. "!G" sends line to a filter. The lines
are the current one to the end of the file. If you want the headers
sent to the filter shift the cursor first. Such as:
map <f3> 1G!G.......
My example filter "pr -t -d" merely double spaces the lines. Replace
with a call to your filter.
The ^M (essentially <Enter>) is typed in as <ctrl>-V followed by the
<Enter> key.
The modified message is then saved and the editor exited with:
:wq^M
The ^M typed as described above.
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